millennials

Noun

millennial (plural millennials)

1. Often capitalized: a person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century, from around the early 1980s to the mid-1990s and who reached adulthood early in the third millennium C.E., characterized by their familiarity with computer technology and poorer financial prospects than their parents.
   • Someday, Boomers hope, Millennials will build according to great ideals their parents can only envision, act on vital issues their parents can only ponder.1991, William Strauss, Neil Howe, “The Millennial Cycle”, in Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, part III (The Future), page...

   Synonyms:

   echo boomer, Generation Yer

2. (obsolete, rare) A thousandth anniversary; also, a celebration of such an anniversary.
   • The Magyar celebrates the millennial of Hungary, not of Austro-Hungary.1896 October, Thomas Lindsay in the Canadian Magazine, quotee, “A Thousand Years of the Magyars”, in Albert Shaw, editor, The Review of Reviews. An International Magazine, volume XIV, number 4, New...

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